Azure Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Microsoft Azure
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Azure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 21 14
Rank change year-on-year +11 -7 -1
Contract jobs citing Azure 177 72 53
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 15.43% 10.71% 11.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 42.34% 32.58% 36.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 54 40
10th Percentile £398 £317 £481
25th Percentile £436 £400 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £480 £544
Median % change year-on-year +6.77% -11.72% -8.31%
75th Percentile £591 £578 £638
90th Percentile £675 £688 £655
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £492 £513
% change year-on-year +1.73% -4.10% -6.82%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South Yorkshire

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 418 221 144
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 36.44% 32.89% 30.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 287 161 95
10th Percentile £362 £312 £400
25th Percentile £444 £384 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £493 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.30% -6.13% -11.47%
75th Percentile £600 £538 £606
90th Percentile £688 £650 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £20.50
Median hourly rate £16.00 - £21.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.69%
75th Percentile - - £21.50
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £19.00 £200.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -90.50% +852.38% -6.71%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Azure job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Azure
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Azure.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Azure

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 9 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in South Yorkshire

Azure
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 9 October 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Sheffield +10 172 £514 +7.08% 92
Doncaster -6 1 - - 7
Azure
Yorkshire

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 21 (11.86%) Confluence
2 11 (6.21%) Apache Spark
3 9 (5.08%) SharePoint
4 8 (4.52%) Apache
4 8 (4.52%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (2.82%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (2.82%) Apache Superset
6 2 (1.13%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (2.26%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.13%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 94 (53.11%) AWS
2 83 (46.89%) GCP
3 35 (19.77%) GitHub
4 31 (17.51%) Azure DevOps
5 28 (15.82%) Entra ID
6 22 (12.43%) Microsoft 365
7 13 (7.34%) GitHub Actions
8 12 (6.78%) Power Platform
9 11 (6.21%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 9 (5.08%) Azure Monitor
10 9 (5.08%) Serverless
11 7 (3.95%) Microsoft Copilot
12 6 (3.39%) Kong
13 5 (2.82%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (2.82%) Azure Data Factory
13 5 (2.82%) OpenShift
14 4 (2.26%) Azure Storage
14 4 (2.26%) Cloud Run
14 4 (2.26%) GitHub Copilot
14 4 (2.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (9.04%) Network Security
2 14 (7.91%) DNS
3 11 (6.21%) Firewall
4 5 (2.82%) VPN
5 4 (2.26%) Reverse Proxy
6 3 (1.69%) Kerberos
7 2 (1.13%) DHCP
7 2 (1.13%) LAN
7 2 (1.13%) Multicast
7 2 (1.13%) NAS
7 2 (1.13%) SAN
7 2 (1.13%) VLAN
7 2 (1.13%) WAN
8 1 (0.56%) Intranet
8 1 (0.56%) NetScaler
8 1 (0.56%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.56%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.78%) Big Data
1 12 (6.78%) SQL Server
2 11 (6.21%) Data Lake
3 10 (5.65%) Power BI
4 7 (3.95%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (3.95%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (3.39%) Relational Database
6 5 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (2.82%) Neo4j
6 5 (2.82%) Trino
7 4 (2.26%) Metadata
7 4 (2.26%) Redis
8 3 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.69%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.13%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (1.13%) Delta Lake
9 2 (1.13%) Flink
9 2 (1.13%) RDBMS
9 2 (1.13%) Spark SQL
10 1 (0.56%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 33 (18.64%) Jenkins
2 29 (16.38%) JIRA
3 13 (7.34%) Git
4 8 (4.52%) GitLab
4 8 (4.52%) Sonatype Nexus
5 7 (3.95%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.13%) Browser DevTools
6 2 (1.13%) Claude Code
6 2 (1.13%) Fiddler
6 2 (1.13%) MSBuild
6 2 (1.13%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.56%) Gatling
7 1 (0.56%) JMeter
7 1 (0.56%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.56%) Maven
7 1 (0.56%) NeoLoad
7 1 (0.56%) Postman
7 1 (0.56%) Selenium
7 1 (0.56%) Terragrunt
General
1 72 (40.68%) Social Skills
2 69 (38.98%) Finance
3 29 (16.38%) Banking
4 24 (13.56%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (6.21%) Financial Institution
6 8 (4.52%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (3.39%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.82%) Law
9 4 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.26%) Investment Banking
9 4 (2.26%) Legal
10 2 (1.13%) Billing
10 2 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.13%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.13%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.56%) Marketing
11 1 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.56%) Prime Brokerage
11 1 (0.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 27 (15.25%) Architect
2 25 (14.12%) Lead
3 19 (10.73%) DevOps Engineer
4 18 (10.17%) Developer
5 12 (6.78%) Platform Engineer
5 12 (6.78%) Senior
6 10 (5.65%) Consultant
6 10 (5.65%) Solutions Architect
7 9 (5.08%) Azure Engineer
7 9 (5.08%) Cloud Architect
8 8 (4.52%) Data Engineer
8 8 (4.52%) Software Engineer
9 7 (3.95%) Cloud Engineer
9 7 (3.95%) Security Architect
9 7 (3.95%) Technical Leader
10 6 (3.39%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 6 (3.39%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
10 6 (3.39%) Cloud Solutions Architect
10 6 (3.39%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
10 6 (3.39%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (31.64%) Terraform
2 24 (13.56%) REST
3 18 (10.17%) OAuth
4 15 (8.47%) .NET
4 15 (8.47%) Kafka
4 15 (8.47%) OpenID
5 14 (7.91%) OAuth2
6 13 (7.34%) SAML
7 12 (6.78%) React
8 10 (5.65%) SailPoint
9 9 (5.08%) ASP.NET
10 8 (4.52%) JSON
11 7 (3.95%) .NET Core
11 7 (3.95%) AngularJS
11 7 (3.95%) FIDO
11 7 (3.95%) Spring
11 7 (3.95%) Spring Boot
11 7 (3.95%) Web Services
12 6 (3.39%) HTML
12 6 (3.39%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 33 (18.64%) Cloud Native
2 21 (11.86%) Data Protection Act
3 17 (9.60%) Enterprise Software
4 12 (6.78%) Onboarding
5 11 (6.21%) Data Centre
6 10 (5.65%) AI Agents
7 8 (4.52%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (3.39%) Linux Command Line
8 6 (3.39%) PKI
8 6 (3.39%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (2.82%) Mobile App
9 5 (2.82%) Replication
10 4 (2.26%) Autonomous Agent
10 4 (2.26%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (2.26%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.69%) Cyber Security Posture
11 3 (1.69%) Cyber Threat
11 3 (1.69%) Enterprise Storage
11 3 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (1.69%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 18 (10.17%) Windows
2 17 (9.60%) Linux
3 15 (8.47%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.69%) AIX
4 3 (1.69%) Android
4 3 (1.69%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.13%) Data ONTAP
5 2 (1.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.13%) Unix
6 1 (0.56%) CoreOS
6 1 (0.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (51.41%) DevOps
2 90 (50.85%) CI/CD
3 62 (35.03%) Cybersecurity
4 52 (29.38%) Infrastructure as Code
5 43 (24.29%) Observability
6 41 (23.16%) Agile
7 39 (22.03%) Stakeholder Management
8 36 (20.34%) Platform Engineering
9 34 (19.21%) Continuous Improvement
10 33 (18.64%) AI
11 31 (17.51%) Analytics
11 31 (17.51%) Microservices
11 31 (17.51%) Problem-Solving
12 29 (16.38%) Software Engineering
13 28 (15.82%) DevSecOps
14 27 (15.25%) Test Automation
15 25 (14.12%) Cloud Security
15 25 (14.12%) Risk Management
16 24 (13.56%) RBAC
16 24 (13.56%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 62 (35.03%) Python
2 41 (23.16%) Java
3 33 (18.64%) SQL
4 28 (15.82%) PowerShell
5 15 (8.47%) C#
6 11 (6.21%) Bash
7 9 (5.08%) JavaScript
8 8 (4.52%) Bicep
8 8 (4.52%) Shell Script
9 7 (3.95%) Go
9 7 (3.95%) Groovy
9 7 (3.95%) Kotlin
10 5 (2.82%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (1.69%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.56%) C
12 1 (0.56%) Cypher
12 1 (0.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 17 (9.60%) Degree
2 10 (5.65%) AWS Certification
3 9 (5.08%) CISSP
3 9 (5.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (4.52%) Azure Certification
5 7 (3.95%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 7 (3.95%) CCSP
5 7 (3.95%) Cisco Certification
5 7 (3.95%) CISM
5 7 (3.95%) PMI Certification
5 7 (3.95%) PMP
6 6 (3.39%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (3.39%) CCSK
7 5 (2.82%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (1.13%) NCDA
9 2 (1.13%) NCIE
9 2 (1.13%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 1 (0.56%) CRISC
10 1 (0.56%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.08%) QA
2 7 (3.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (3.95%) NIST
3 5 (2.82%) HIPAA
3 5 (2.82%) PCI DSS
3 5 (2.82%) SOC 2
4 4 (2.26%) GRC
5 3 (1.69%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.13%) PMO
7 1 (0.56%) GDPR
7 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 31 (17.51%) Active Directory
2 29 (16.38%) Docker
3 9 (5.08%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (4.52%) Hyper-V
4 8 (4.52%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (1.69%) vSphere
6 2 (1.13%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 2 (1.13%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (1.13%) SRDF
7 1 (0.56%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 1 (0.56%) Ceph
7 1 (0.56%) NFS
7 1 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.56%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 59 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 24 (13.56%) Ansible
3 15 (8.47%) Prometheus
4 13 (7.34%) Grafana
5 8 (4.52%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (3.95%) Kustomize
7 5 (2.82%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (1.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (1.69%) Argo
8 3 (1.69%) Packer
8 3 (1.69%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 2 (1.13%) EMC VPLEX
9 2 (1.13%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.13%) SnapMirror
9 2 (1.13%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.56%) EMC NetWorker
10 1 (0.56%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.56%) QRadar
10 1 (0.56%) SnapVault
10 1 (0.56%) WMI
Vendors
1 58 (32.77%) Microsoft
2 16 (9.04%) Databricks
3 14 (7.91%) Google
4 12 (6.78%) ServiceNow
5 9 (5.08%) CyberArk
6 8 (4.52%) Okta
6 8 (4.52%) VMware
7 7 (3.95%) OpenAI
8 6 (3.39%) Centrify
8 6 (3.39%) Splunk
9 5 (2.82%) Cisco
10 4 (2.26%) Palo Alto
10 4 (2.26%) Ping Identity
10 4 (2.26%) Red Hat
11 3 (1.69%) Veeam
12 2 (1.13%) Brocade
12 2 (1.13%) Citrix
12 2 (1.13%) Dell
12 2 (1.13%) EMC
12 2 (1.13%) Sitecore